Kincoragate

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] dissension within the Loyalist ranks, and foment infighting. In the wake of the successful Ulster Worker Council’s strike in May, 1974, the British Government, under Prime Minister Wilson, tried to renew contacts with the Republican movement. It felt that it was still possible to extract concessions from the IRA for a possible peace settlement. […]

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Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] and what they had to tell us about the state’s activities in Northern Ireland and the UK; and related to that are a couple about the wider ‘Wilson plots’. And the basic question which runs through Lobster and this book – how much interference from the secret state, or secret states, has there been? […]

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Mrs Thatcher, North Sea oil and the hegemony of the City

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] annual rate of inflation had risen, seemingly inexorably, from 3 per cent under the Conservative governments of 1951 to 1964, to 4 per cent under the first Wilson administration, to 9 percent under Heath and to 15 percent under the Labour government of 1974 to 1979. By the time Margaret Thatcher became the Prime […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] and 139). Of that group, only Benn mattered at all, and in the period Crozier is writing of, post 1974, he was completely marginalised by Prime Ministers Wilson and Callaghan. Yes, there were Labour MPs — a handful — who were still friendly with the Soviet bloc. Mr Crozier will not be shocked to […]

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Historical Notes: Blair and Gladstone

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the Ottoman perpetrators at least kept the Russians out of the Balkans) and worked for Irish Home Rule. He has been seen as a forerunner of Woodrow Wilson, whose crusade for national self-determination inspired millions at the end of World War One, and as one of the founders of liberalism. So how can he […]

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Updating and Ongoing

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] of which he was Secretary. Published in 1968, an A2 format pamphlet, Biafra included some acute insights into the politics of oil, the feeble response of the Wilson Government, and the role of the tame British Africa correspondents recycling the Foreign Office line — almost everything, in fact, except the Harold Smith material. Non-lethal […]

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The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

Since 1945, an Agricultural Revolution has occurred in Britain whose significance and impact outstrip anything which occurred in the 18th century. It has turned farming from the practice of husbandry into a form of industrial production, transformed the landscape through its destructive effects on traditional features and substantially changed the nature of the food we […]

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Robin Ramsay, editor

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[…] Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin Ramsay  Interviews and talks Article: Sunday Herald in 17 August 2003. See also: Robin Ramsay at […]

Are spies useless? A Hack’s Progress

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] the manderins could never close again. Notes This section of book was published in the Sunday Times 24 August 1997. The episode also involved Prime Minister Harold Wilson acting as go-between – another example of Wilson trying to be a ‘good boy’ where the spooks were concerned. MI5 had it in for Mountbatten and […]

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Pissing in or pissing out? The ‘big tent’ of Green Alliance

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the radical right-wing think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies, became an MEP in 1994 and ran the Referendum Party 1996/1997. He received a knighthood from Harold Wilson in 1976 for ‘services to ecology’. This is thought to have been a Wilsonian joke. The real reason for the honour is thought to be Goldsmith’s […]

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